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and this, his great botanical work, constitutes a striking proof of his devotion 
to his favourite science. Three parts, forming two volumes, and illustrated by 
411 "beautifully-éxecuted folio plates, have been published ; and it is stated that 
ready for publication. It is one of immense labour and application, in which 
(as it se —€— science and conscience are equally conspicuous, and 
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the ibtd ‘of the geo University, afterwards University Collége, 
Dr. Boott became at onee a member of its Senate and Council, and latterly 
President of its imine = Council. But it was as a leading member 
of the Linnean Society that he was best and most extensively known amon 
naturalists. He became a mica of that Society in 1819; from 1832 to 1840, 
he was Secretary ; and from 1854 to 1861, Treasurer and Vice-President. At 
the meeting of the Society, on the 21st of January, a vote was unanimously 
Las ee of profound regret for the loss of a member so highly valued, 
seiinteteg t ks which miam the present generation of botanists with those 
who preceded them; and as the intimate friend and chosen associate of Sir 
Joseph Banks, of Sir James Smith, and of Robert Brown among the departed, 
and of Sir William Hooker among the nre we cannot but look m his 
memory with feelings of sincere and 
Mr. J oods was born at Stoke Nowitigion, ‘Middlesex, on the 24th 
of August, 1776. After having passed three or four years at two schools 
connected with the Society of Friends, to which persuasion his parents be- 
aban he was sent, when about thirteen or fourteen years of age, to Folke- 
stone, dsa bh thing having been prescribed on account of the state of his 
health. He here became acquainted with the late L. W. Dillwyn, with whom, 
then about the same age, much of his time was d. ^ At the age of 
sixteen, Mr. Woods was apprenticed to Mr. J. Beck, at Dover, and during 
his stay there paid some attention to botany ; but it was not till some years 
later that, on revisiting Dover, he was fairly inoculated with a taste for 
that science by his friend Dillwyn, who had succeeded hini thére, and by 
whom = was introduced to the three brothers ers, Edward, Thomas Furley, — 
and B. | M. Forster, and subsequently to Sir Joseph Banks's breakfast table, 
where naturalists every class and of all ages seem éver to havé been 
heartily welcomed.  Disliking his occupation at Dover, Mr. Woods, at the close 
of his apprenticeship, placed himself as à pupil with Mr. Sherer to study 
egos. and devoted himself for some years to the practice of that profes- 
. During this period (in 1806) he united with a few friends to found the 
Dil Architectural Society, of which he appears to have been the first Pre- 
sident, contributing a number of valuable essays, some of which were published. 
While thus actively engaged in the duties of his profession; Mr. Woods still 
found time to prepare that elaborate monograph of the difficult pend Rosa, in 
which he first pointed out the importance of the sete: in distinguishin, spiel 
